Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stalin, resentful of U.S. influence in a Europe that seemed ripe for Communist plucking, denounced the plan-and within a year of its inception, Czechoslovakia and Poland, both of which had been eager for its benefits, had fallen to Red putsches. In the Hotel Ritz in Paris last week, the U.S.'s most seasoned envoy, Averell Harriman, who was Ambassador to Russia during the last days of World War II, recalled before a 20th anniversary banquet a meeting that he had with Stalin in Berlin at war's end. "It must be a great satisfaction...
...least on his 260-acre preserve near Los Angeles-he has combined such unlikely pen-mates as a python and a chimpanzee, a lion and an elephant and, most unlikely combination of all, a tiger and a fawn. "We humans live a phony existence," he insists. "We have fallen out of rhythm with nature...
That is what has happened: the more traditional roles have fallen to the HUC, and the HPC has tried to make something substantive out of its constitutional mandate, which exhorted it "to cooperate with the Faculty and Administration in studying college policies of general interest to the student body." Ellis, now at the Law School, is pleased. "But," he adds, "anything would have been better than the HCUA...
Characteristically, Walt's thoughts were not with himself but with his Marines and fallen comrades. "I have a deep feeling of sadness as I recall those young men who have given their lives," he said, "but there is no higher cause than that of freedom...
...very next day, however, the institutions reasserted their command of the market, and the Dow-Jones average rose precisely as much as it had fallen-12.42 points. Market watchers credited the rise to the fact that funds moved in to pick up bargains that had been created by the drop of the day before...